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    To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incenseto action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence,commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, bytaunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offendintolerably; to cause to retaliate.Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21.Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4.Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in uslive. Milton.Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray.To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what itprovokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.

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      To wind-up and annoy someone by calling them names repeatedly, prodding, poking, tickling, etc. until they end up puching or kicking the one doing the provoking.
      Usually done by smaller siblings to piss off older siblings.

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        To suck a penis. Common slang.

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